Category: Local

While you were out: local news

Arrests made in Campus Court fire In April 2010, nearly half of the Campus Court plaza on University Avenue, including businesses such as Mel’s Diner and Tabu nightclub, was...

Buskers: all fun and games

Two ferris wheels, face painting stations, acrobats, candy floss, kettle corn, funnel cakes and bottle toss games had Uptown Waterloo packed full of people this past weekend for...

Zoning issues de-rail Northdale sale

A simple plan to auction 39 homes in Northdale, the student-inhabited area just north of Wilfrid Laurier University, to building developers became more complicated than intended...

Zumba-fit for African famine

When Waterloo resident and University of Guelph student Mariam Javed first began hearing about East Africa’s devastating drought and subsequent famine, it struck her with a...

K-W prepares for another election

As students move back to Waterloo and prepare for the school year, local candidates for member of provincial parliament (MPP) have already been long at work In just over a...

Back to burger basics

The recently opened Frat Burger on the corner of King Street and University Ave, embodies the local Waterloo culture from top to bottom Pictures of historical Wilfrid Laurier...

City flags raised at half-mast

The city of Waterloo facilities will be flying their flags at half-mast on Friday, August 26 through August 29, in memory of the leader of the official Opposition, Jack Layton,...

Vigil held for late NDP leader

Yesterday, mere hours after news had broken that Jack Layton passed away, a group of Waterloo region New Democrats Party (NDP) supporters created a Facebook group to organize a...

NDP leader dies at 61

Official opposition NDP leader Jack Layton, age 61, died this morning after a long battle with cancer According to CBC news, though the battle with cancer was long, Layton died...

New landmark erected in Uptown

Five beautiful handcrafted bells were hoisted earlier today at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) campus as a marker of CIGI’s Canadian-based...